Now, however, a company was going to irrigate the land with water from a river fed by the Rockies' snow.

There are, however, many smaller streams flowing through the different valleys, which serve, during the dry season, to irrigate the land.

Like Garang, he was an expert in agricultural techniques, and made it his task to irrigate the land that abutted the river.

Or if it doesn't overflow," Ramesses said slowly, "that enough water can be taken from the river to irrigate the land."

Nile water, impounded during floods, irrigated the land during the long dry seasons.

They dug drainage ditches and irrigated the land from Campbell Springs.

It was for irrigating the land, he said.

In former times these artificial works were common, and served to irrigate the lands on each side.

The large one formerly united the Euphrates with the Tigris, and the whole served for irrigating the land.

The valleys run with water from the mountains to irrigate the lands, and furnish vast power, much of it undeveloped.

God is represented as irrigating the land of Israel, but leaving the rest of the earth to be watered by an angel.

The old man steadfastly refused to adopt modern farming methods; he had never levelled off the hummocks, nor drained or irrigated the land.